Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2014) 129: 1
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2014-14001-y

Regular Article

Bound states of spatially dependent mass Dirac equation with the Eckart potential including Coulomb tensor interaction

¹ Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, An-Najah National University, New Campus, Nablus, West Bank, Palestine
² Department of Physics, Near East University, 922022, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus
³ Theoretical Physics Section, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
⁴ Mersin 10, Turkey

^* e-mail: fbjames11@physicist.net

Received: 1 October 2013
Accepted: 24 November 2013
Published online: 7 January 2014

Abstract

We investigate the approximate solutions of the Dirac equation with the position-dependent mass particle in the Eckart potential field including the Coulomb tensor interaction by using the parametric Nikiforov-Uvarov method. Taking an appropriate approximation to deal with the centrifugal term, the Dirac energy states and the corresponding normalized two-spinor components of the wave function are obtained in closed form. Some special cases of our solution are investigated. Furthermore, we present the correct solutions obtained via the asymptotic iteration method which are in agreement with the parametric Nikiforov-Uvarov method results.